A record-breaking great white shark was spotted swimming off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on July 18. The shark, named ...

A record-breaking 17.6-meter rogue wave off British Columbia highlights the importance of wind dynamics in wave formation ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

Surfing is a lot like fishing in that stories tend to grow over time. Here are six whoppers that still have us wondering.

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

One such event is a colossal storm that generated the largest waves ever recorded in human history. These monumental waves, towering at heights unimagined before, bring with them stories of natural ...

Wilem Banks is a soft-spoken woodworker from Santa Cruz who, in December, paddled into the biggest wave of his life, and potentially the biggest ever, in his fourth session at Jaws.

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called J1601+3102.

In one of the nation’s first wrongful-death claims seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for its role in the changing climate, a Washington state woman is suing seven oil and gas ...